JSE in the New Millennium

Newsletter for the Section on Statistical Education
Volume 7, Number 2 (Spring 2001)

The Journal of Statistics Education (JSE) began the new
millennium with a new editor and a new look on the World
Wide Web. I was appointed editor in January 2001,
succeeding the founding editor, Jackie Dietz, who had
served for eight years. Jackie deserves all the credit for
making JSE what it is today.

JSE has grown from publishing via email distribution in
1993 to a fully linked Web version in 2001. We installed a
new "look" to the Web site beginning with the May 2001
issue. We tried to make the site even easier to navigate
without compromising the appearance and quality of the
articles.

In August 2000 the American Statistical Association
(ASA) Board of Directors voted to make JSE free, as it was
when Jackie Dietz founded it in 1993. Although
subscription fees are no longer required to access JSE
articles, we have not lost the ability to automatically
maintain an email distribution list of subscribers. If you
would like to sign up at no cost to receive electronic
notices of new issues of JSE, please send me an email and I
will add you to our distribution list.

Another change in 2001 is the availability of banner and
button space for advertisements on the JSE Web site. The
ASA has been very supportive of JSE since it became an
official ASA journal, but it would be ideal if JSE could
become self sufficient through funds raised by
advertising. If you are interested in placing an ad on the
JSE Web site, please contact me or Claudine Donovan (claudine@amstat.org)
at ASA for more information.

We will publish at least two more issues in 2001. Parts
of the July issue are already installed on the JSE Web
site. The July issue will include articles by Dex
Whittinghill and Bob Hogg on "A Little Uniform Density With
Big Instructional Potential," by Robert Bordley on
"Teaching Decision Theory in Applied Statistics Courses,"
by Chris Malone and Chris Bilder on "Statistics Course Web
sites: Beyond syllabus.html," and more. The final regular
issue of 2001 will appear in November.

We also plan to publish a special issue in late 2001 or
early 2002 that will include articles from sessions at JSM
2001 and the 2000 AERA meeting. These articles will be
accompanied by discussions contributed by leading
statistics educators.

Thanks to the JSE Editorial Board, we are handling a
steady flow of submissions from all over the world. We can
always use more excellent articles, so please consider
writing an article relevant to statistics education and
sending it along to JSE.

Please continue to read JSE, to give feedback on what
you read, and to consider sharing your own ideas and
expertise with JSE by submitting an article.